Her comments have not gone down well.

Theresa May abandoned key parts of her child obesity strategy because she is not a parent, the founder of a restaurant chain has claimed.

Thomasina Miers, who won Masterchef in 2005 and went on to found Mexican eatery Wahaca, told the Hay Festival that measures such as banning junk food advertising would not have disappeared from the strategy if the PM had children, the Times reported.

Miers said: “Part of me felt that if you had had children you would not have done that, because it is so important that our children eat [healthy food].”

The mother-of-three said that she had “hesitated” about making the claim but added: “But I kind of felt that this food bill was six years in the making, it was a very important food bill and having children makes you think a lot about how food is marketed to children and how you feed your own children.”

But her comments were met with strong criticism.

Masterchef's Thomasina Miers says PM may have kept child obesity strategy if she was mum.Can we stop judging ppl on whether they have kids? pic.twitter.com/NDLe1nUYIF